Taplow narrates the incident about one day when Mr. Crocker Harris made one of his classical jokes in the class which no one understood.

Taplow laughed out of politeness. Instead of feeling thankful, Mr. Crocker Harris asked Taplow to explain the joke to the class.

This incident proved that Mr. Crocker Harris did not like 'being liked'.

The narrator takes us a few years forward where Ranga and Ratna are happily married, had a three year old son and Ratna was eight months pregnant.Ranga’s sister had come over to help them. It was Shyama’s birthday! Yes, the couple named their son after the narrator as it is a common foreign tradition to name your child after someone you truly admire. When the narrator went there for dinner, Shyama came running to him only to show his love by holding his leg. The narrator kissed him and gave him a ring.

Grandmother was an old and short lady. Her face was covered with wrinkles. She always wears white dress and take beads of rosary in her hands. She was a polite and kind lady. She was a very religious woman. When narrator live with her in village. She always feed dogs with stale chapattis. But after coming in city she was unable to feed dogs with chapattis. Because in city there are no dogs. 

Also she cannot help the narrator in her studies because she don't know about science and English. She was sad to hear that there was no teaching about God and scriptures in narrator's school. She also think that music was not meant for gentle folk. 

But when narrator went to abroad for his further studies. She felt very sad. Now, she spent most of her time by spinning at the wheel and praying. She feed the sparrows in her spare time. When she feed the sparrows they sat on her head, hand etc. and start chapping like they are talking with her. 

When the narrator came from the abroad. She felt happy and collect all the women of her neighborhood and start singing the homecoming of warriors. Due to overwork, she developed fever. She told her family members that her end was near. But the doctor said she would recover soon. She don't spend time with her family members, instead she continued praying; till she breathed her last.

The poem is a tribute to the poet’s mother. She is looking at an old photograph of her mother which has a frame of cardboard. The picture has three girls in which the middle one is the oldest and tallest.

It is her mother when she was twelve years old or so. Beside her, on both sides are her two cousins, Betty and Dolly, who are holding her hands and are younger than her. They went for paddling on a beach holiday. Her uncle took the photograph then. The poet could not help but notice her mother’s sweet face. The sea touched her terribly transient feet which depicted that she changed over the years and the sea remained the same.

After twenty-thirty years, her mother would laugh at the photograph. She would make the poet look at the photograph and tell her how their parents would dress them up for the beach holiday. The beach holiday was her mother’s favourite past memories while her laugh was the poet's favourite memory. Both of them lost something which they cherished a lot and yet cannot live that moment again.

Those sweet moments were memories now.

Now, the poet’s mother had been dead for the past twelve years, which is the same number as of her age when the photograph was taken back then. She cannot express the grief that she has from her mother’s absence.

The narrator was very good nature person.He always used to give love and respect for his village.he always used to consider his village as the most beautiful village in the world.Also the narrator called english language a priceless commodity.The narrator was a very witting person.

There was not much of a difference between the reaction of the children and the adults when faced with danger. Both showed courage and strength. The children showed a more positive frame of mind. The captain and his crew members tried to save the boat but the impetus given to the captain was from his son who said that he was not afraid to die as long as they were together.

Khushwant Singh describes his grandmother as Short ,fat and a little Stooped. He also describes her as being not pretty in the traditional sense but her serenity made her beautiful as she always used to chant silent prayers from beads of rosary.She was always in spotless white.

They were very close to each other but the distance grew once he moved to city to further his academics.

The narrator’s uncle was considered to be a crazy man. Actually, he was the natural descendant of the crazy streak in the family. He was a huge and powerful man. He had a big strong head with black hair. He was a man of furious nature. He was short tempered and of irritable nature. He would not let anybody talk before him. He would stop him shouting. “It is no harm ; pay no attention to it.”

M. Hamel began to speak but could not continue as he was overpowered by his emotions. He took a piece of chalk and wrote the words “Vive La France” meaning ‘Long Live France’ on the blackboard as large as he could.

Tut was just a teenager when he died. He was laid to rest in his grave laden with gold and finally forgotten. The tomb was discovered in 1922. The world has been speculating about Tut's fate. Some even did not rule out the possibility of his murder. A CT Scan was done on Tut to offer new clues about his life and death. The other aim was to provide an accurate forensic reconstruction of the young Pharaoh.

The workmen carried Tut from the tomb in his wooden box. They climbed a ramp and a flight of stairs in the sand outside. Then they rose on a hydraulic lift and went into the trailer that held the scanner.

The results of the CT Scan were quite encouraging. 1700 digital X-ray images in cross section were created. A grey head appeared on screen. Neck vertebrae were quite clear. The images of hand, ribcage and skull were equally bright. These revealed that nothing had gone seriously wrong with Tut's body.

Everyone was very sad at the demise of the grandmother. She was lifted off the bed and, as is customary, laid on the ground and covered with a red shroud. After a few hours of mourning the family left her alone to make arrangements for her funeral. In the evening, all over the verandah and in her room right up to where she lay dead and stiff wrapped in the red shroud, thousands of sparrows sat scattered on the floor. There was no chirruping. Everyone felt sorry for the birds and the author’s mother fetched some bread for them. She broke it into little crumbs, the way his  grandmother used to, and threw it to them. The sparrows took no notice of the bread. When they carried the grandmother’s corpse off, they flew away quietly.

Dr. Kalam had three visions for India.  He believed the realization of these visions was crucial key to India’s growth and development. The first vision was FREEDOM. Dr. Kalam appealed to all the Indians, especially the youth, to protect, nurture and build on her freedom to be respected by the entire world.

Mrs. Dorling : Fishing in troubled water is an old - idiom which means taking advantage of the misfortunes of other. Among the humans there are some , present in every nook and corner of humans habitations who are always on the look for an opportunity like this to fish in troubled water.

Mrs. Dorling was one such individual . She knew that Mrs . S' family off and had so many valuable possessions . She also knew that troubled was soon going to strike Mrs. S' family . Everyone knew that all jews were doomed under Hitler's reign . Taking advantage of the situation , Mrs . Dorling came close to Mrs S'. She claimed that they were old classmates . She needed effort to gain the confidence of distressed Mrs.S' .She took all their valuable possession for "safe - keeping , through at heart she knew that none of the jewish family will survive to reclaim their property ."